Diana Khodjaeva

Diana Khodjaeva (born 26 August 1998) is a Belgian pool player. Khodjaeva is a former junior WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, having won the girls event in 2012. Khodjaeva represented Europe at the Atlantic Challenge Cup in 2017 against the United States team. Khodjaeva is a two time European champion.

Diana Khodjaeva
Born (1998-08-26) 26 August 1998
Sport country Belgium
Ranking info

Career

The following year, Khodjaeva won the junior girls event at the world championships, defeating Karen Garcia 7–3 in the semi-final, and winning the final 7–0 over Poland's Oliwia Czupryńska.[1] Khodjaeva would reach the final again in 2014, but this time lose the final to Liu Yuchen 9–3.[2]

Khodjaeva first appeared at an adult world championship at the 2009 Women's WPA World Nine-ball Championship, at aged 13, but didn't win a match until the 2011 event, where she reached the last 32.[3] She would also reach the last 32 stage at the women's event in 2015, before losing 9–1 to Kim Ga-young.[4][5] Khodjaeva would also make an appearance at the 2016 Kremlin World Cup, but be eliminated in the second loser's round.[6]

Khodjaeva represented Europe at the 2017 Atlantic Challenge Cup,[7] before retiring from pool until 2019, where she entered the 2019 Austria Open, winning six games and reaching the quarter-finals, before losing 7–3 to Veronika Hubrtova.[8] Khodjaeva is a two-time winner at the European Pool Championships, winning the 10-ball event in 2015,[9] and 9-Ball event in 2016.[10][11] She also competed for the junior national team, at both the European Youth Championships 2014 and 2015 with which she won the bronze medal in 2014.[12]

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